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ECE/MAE7360. Robust and Optimal Control.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University
FISP (Focused Independent Study Project)
Requirements: You are asked to focus on a specific topic related to "Robust and Optimal Control"
and perform an independent study. Then you will give a presentation (20 min plus 5 min
discussion) to the class. If you fail to do well in FISP, you cannot get an "A" or even "A-".
Schedule: Choose a topic by March 12, 2007. Dates of presentation:4/16 (3 presentations), 4/18
(3 presentations), 4/23 (3 presentations). 4/25 (3 presentations)
Topics:
• You are encouraged to pick a topic by reading current issues of IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control or Automatica.
• Better to decide a topic that is closer to your thesis topic.
• Note that you should know that all the journal articles are available from
http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/ from 1998 – present. You also use Citeseer site
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ to get more online papers.
• However, your selected topic is subject to the instructor's approval. Feel free to consult the
instructor for a suitable FIST topic of yours.
• Listed below are the topics suggested by the instructor who can provide you the right
references.
Suggested FISP topics.
1. LMIs (linear matrix inequalities) based robust control
2. Structured uncertainties: beyond LFT framework (Kharitonov's Theorem)1
3. Extending ∞
Hcontrol to nonlinear systems
4. Polynomial Toolbox for Robust Control2
5. Robustness analysis of sensor networks
6. Interval analysis for robust control
7. Multiobjective robust control
8. Fragility analysis of robust controllers.
9. 1
Lcontrol
1 Edge theorem. See http://www.polyx.com/
2 See http://www.polyx.com/